1-amino-5-methoxy-benzo-thiazole



Patented Oct. 17, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE g 1,931,011, r I-AMINO-S-METHOXYV-BENZO-THIAZ'OLE Herbert August Lubs and Arthur Lawrence Fox, Wilmington, Del., assignors to E. I. du Pont de' Nemours & Company, Wilmington, Del., a cornotation of Delaware No Drawing. Application August 5, 1931 Serial No. 555,358

This invention relates to a new compound which contains both nitrogen and sulphur and has in its molecule a thiazole ring. It has a formula corresponding to the following structure:

method results in the production of the hydrohalide of the amino thiazole and may be readily converted to the free base bythe use of alkali. I

An example of this invention follows:

Example,

9.1 grams p-anisyl-thiourea and 50 cc. chloro benzene were mixed in a beaker and stirred while a mixture of cc. chloro benzene and 8.75 grams bromine was gradually added. A vigor- 1'15 ous reaction took place and the'product was formed as coarse grey green granules. These were stirred one hour and filtered. Yield 12.5 grams-9.5% as the hydrobromide oi 5-methoxyl-amino benzothiazole.

to 35, cc. water containing one gram sodium ,bisulfite and heated to the boil. One cc. hydrochloric acid was then added and it was filtered. The filtrate was treated with decolorizin'g charcoal, filtered again, and the free base precipitated by the addition of ammonia. It melted at 161-1625".

Three grams of this hydrobromide was added izing charcoal, flltering and precipitating with In the above example in place of bromine there may be used an equivalent amount of chlorine or suliuryl chloride, and it is also possible to use mixtures of suliuryl chloride with either chlorine or bromine.

Since many embodiments of this invention,

diflering widely in one or more respects, may be made without departing from the spirit of our invention, it is to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the foregoing examples or description except as indicated in the following claim: 7

We claim: The product probably having the formula E-NH: on. I s

which is substantially identical with the product obtainable by mixing about 9.1 parts of para.- anisyl-thiourea and about 55 parts of chlorobenzene and stirring the same while gradually adding about 22 parts of chloro-benzene con-. taining about 8.75'parts of bromine, stirring for about one hour, filtering, adding the filtered residue to about 146 parts of water containing about 4.2 parts of sodium bisulphite, boiling,

acidifying the reaction mass with hydrochloric acid, filtering, treating the filtrate with decolorammonia; and which is when dry a white crystal line substance melting at about 161-162.5 C.

HERBERT A. LUBS. ARTHUR LAWRENCE FOX. 

